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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So i looked this up out of interest. 
In 2015 there were approx. 8200 babies born to women 45 and older in the US.  (from CDC).

That same year there were a total of 22,709 donor IVF cycles started in the US with a success rate of 60% that year so about 13,700 donor egg babies.   (This is the data from SART--society assisted reproductive technology--which includes the data of 80% of US fertility clinics). 
How many of these are to women 45 and older?  I'd estimate a half?  6850 babies.   So you're talking about 1-2K naturally conceived babies over age 45 in the US.  That's a very, very small number.   Heck, 8K is a very, very small number when the overall number of births was 3.9 million.

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So you are grouping all women who are trying to have a baby together which is a bad way to do math. Statistically, a lot of women 45 and older will not be trying for a baby which right there is sufficient to explain the low birth rate. For one, the average age of first babies in the US is I believe 26, and the average number of babies per woman is 2.4. So by the time most women are 45, they've had the babies they want. I will be one of those women 45 and older not having a baby, simply because I had the family I wanted by mid 30s and don't want any more kids. That doesn't mean the fact that I won't be trying to have a baby after 45 should mean anything.

Second, there are some women who get to 45 without having kids, and those women have likely decided they don't want kids, maybe they tried earlier and couldn't have them. But anyway, I suspect not a lot of women wake up after 45 and say "I want to have kids!" Sure some do, hence the 8,200. But most don't. Further, you fail to take into account that 7,000 babies are aborted every year by women in this age group. Oopsies. [/quote]

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